We are very grateful to Sharynne McLeod, Sadanand Singh and Plural Publishing for allowing us to share the title of their book, Seeing Speech, which we recommend as a very useful tool for the student of phonetics.

We are very grateful to Sharynne McLeod, Sadanand Singh and Plural Publishing for allowing us to share the title of their book, Seeing Speech, which we recommend as a very useful tool for the student of phonetics.

Introduction

This online resource is a product of the collaboration between researchers at six Scottish Universities: The University of Glasgow, Queen Margaret University, Napier University, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen. The resource will provide teachers and students of Practical Phonetics with ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) video of speech, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) video of speech and 2D midsagittal head animations based on MRI and UTI data. The first phase of this resource began in July 2011 and was completed in September 2013. Further funding was obtained to improve and augment this resource and its sister site Dynamic Dialects, with work beginning in January 2014 and due to be completed in April 2015.

The website contains two main resources:

An introduction to UTI, MRI vocal tract imaging techniques and information about the production of the articulatory animations.